Biography

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when a grandmaster of chess turns his analytical eye not just on the board, but on...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA legend in his own lifetime, Bobby Fischer — the most celebrated chess player of the twentieth century...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedHe was a man who filled every room he entered and every column inch he wrote — Eric Baume was one of...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn the scorching desert of North Africa, the Siege of Tobruk stands as one of the most extraordinary...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedOne of the most audacious military campaigns of the twentieth century is recounted here from the perspective of the man...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Damaged but present; fairly large chuck missing from the spine - remains in one piece with moderate tears. Few figures in the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingBeneath the frozen Arctic Ocean, history was being made. Surface at the Pole chronicles the extraordinary true story of the...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the blood-soaked theatre of World War II, no story is more audacious or more harrowing than the mass breakout...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedThe Eyes of the Navy stands as a compelling portrait of one of the most formidable intelligence minds of the...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in modern history embody the calculated machinery of genocide quite like Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer whose...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOn the evening of May 6, 1937, the largest aircraft ever built burst into flames above a New Jersey airfield, killing...

Edition: 8th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFew military figures of the Second World War have captured the imagination of both friend and foe quite...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the autumn of 1944, Allied commanders launched Operation Market Garden — the largest airborne assault in history — staking the lives of thousands...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Binding remains tight. Clean copy. At the close of the First World War, the sunken...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the heart of one of the twentieth century's most turbulent geopolitical flashpoints stands a figure of towering...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedBehind the immortal diary lies a life that extends far beyond its final entry — The Footsteps of Anne Frank by Ernst Schnabel is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the sun-scorched theatres of the Second Boer War, one man's legend blazes as brightly as the African veld — and ends just as...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageCecil John Seddon Purdy was no ordinary chess player — he was a trailblazer, a wordsmith,...

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Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn 1960, the chess world witnessed one of its most electrifying upsets:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of science and human experience stands Sigmund Freud — a figure whose theories irrevocably altered...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when one man's mind reshapes an entire civilization? Freud and the 20th Century, edited by Benjamin...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn an age when maps held vast blank spaces and the ocean's edge was the boundary of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the sprawling fringes of postwar Australia, a new kind of community was taking shape — raw, ambitious,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the crossroads of policy and human welfare, Australian Social Security Today: Major developments from 1900 to 1978 presents a sweeping chronicle of Australia's social...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedWhat happens when a maverick explorer stakes his reputation — and his life — on a papyrus reed boat crossing...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedFrom the man who redefined how we see ourselves as a species comes Animal Days, the candid and captivating autobiography of Desmond Morris — zoologist,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat really happened behind the closed doors of history's most celebrated figures? The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People presents a boldly candid and meticulously...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the rugged and unforgiving Australian interior of the 1840s, explorer Ludwig Leichhardt mounted a second ambitious expedition into the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the iron grip of Paul I to the catastrophic collapse of Nicholas II's reign in 1917, Russia of the Tsars: 1796–1917 chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the height of the Cold War, when the Soviet Union remained one of the most impenetrable and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore Paul Taylor became a defining voice in the New York art world, he was an electric presence...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingGeorge Essex Evans, one of colonial Australia's most celebrated poets, left behind a body of verse that captures the vast, sunburned spirit of a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFrom the sun-scorched plains of rural Australia rises a voice of extraordinary lyrical tenderness — the Collected Poems of John...